Re: defective GTK app crashes gnome

[Matt Hull <mhull1 uic edu>]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ricardo Malafaia wrote:

> On 2/6/06, Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu> wrote:
> > This is new news to me.  The only thing that I know of that would make a
> > machine lock up so as to require a reboot is a memory leak or some
> > obscure X11 bug.
>
> Actually, i've had several problems with X freezing up because of some
> misbehaviour from some graphical app.  The keyboard is locked so it's
> hopeless to try CTRL+ALT+BKSP
>
> > When the system locks up, is the computer still alive?  Can you ssh into
> > it
>
> that's the problem: most desktop Linux users can't ssh login from
> another machine into the problematic one...
>
> So, Linux is rock-solid stable, but you should have ssh-server running
> and a spare client machine for eventual problems with graphical
> apps... :)
>
> I don't even know the relevancy of this to this list, since it's
> unlikely to be a GTK problem...
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is ctrl + alt + backspace enabled ?

matt